I'm sick and damned tired of movies that get described as "a hilarious comedy!" and then turn out to be heavy and depressing and LIGHTLY sprinkled with a funny moment or two.
I'm looking at you Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, and that one with the guy from Scrubs... oh yeah, Garden State.
I mean, the first 2 minutes of this movie has Steve Carrell fresh from an attempted suicide, an old man with a bad heroine habit, and a sullen teen who hasn't spoken a word for 9 months.
That's comedic situations, right there!
I guess I prefer comedies that don't leave me feeling sad. I must be too simple to understand.
This movie is fine for what it is, but it is not a fucking comedy. The fact that I was expecting and in the mood for a comedy leaves me feeling pissed off. So fuck this movie and everyone who ever described it as a comedy.
Little Miss Sunshine
I thought it was hilarious, although I will agree it was certainly not what I would term "light comedy".
But as much as I liked Little Miss Sunshine, I hated Lost in Translation. I don't understand how you can lump those two in the same grouping; one was funny and one was just dull and boring.
But as much as I liked Little Miss Sunshine, I hated Lost in Translation. I don't understand how you can lump those two in the same grouping; one was funny and one was just dull and boring.
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thibodeaux
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Liked Translation, but that's probably because I've been to Japan and it was one of those "oh man that is so true!" things. Wanted to kick that teenage boy's ass in Sunshine. He wants to be in the military? Not with haircut he don't.
Neither movie was exactly what I would call a non-stop laugh riot.
Neither movie was exactly what I would call a non-stop laugh riot.
thibodeaux wrote:Liked Translation, but that's probably because I've been to Japan and it was one of those "oh man that is so true!" things. Wanted to kick that teenage boy's ass in Sunshine. He wants to be in the military? Not with haircut he don't.
Well........
Granted, he was trying to get into the Air Force Acdemy, and I was always told the best way to do that was to get a recommendation from your congressman/senator/whatever. A haircut would probably have helped him through that interview process.
Me, though.... I signed up for the USMC and had 2 months to wait until I went to boot camp. I had my own exercize/conditioning program going on... heavy weight lifting and 3 mile runs, 3 days a week... and I had longish hair... but the local USMC recruiters also wanted me to go to these "poolie" (before you go to basic you are in their POOL) meets on Saturdays. I went to one, and it was stupid.... yeah, it had the same intensity as basic (lots of E-1's and E-2's screaming at you), but I didn't see the point. They weren't teaching me anything I didn't know, and I wasn't getting paid yet, so I just stopped going in spite of my recruiters' "strong disapproval."
But then shipping day came and I still out-preformed all the other dirtbags (who in spite of their faithfull attendance at poolie meets still looked like 60 pounds of chewed bubble gum) who were going with me out of Detroit in our initial physicl fitness tests, so fuck them and their games.
My recruiter wrote me "how ya doin?" letters while in basic, but who has the time to write a damned letter to their recruiter?
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And the little girl... I felt sorry for her from beginning to end. It seemed like she was constantly getting shit upon. The only family member who paid much attention to her was her heroin using grandfather.... and he died. The entire climax of the movie was trying to keep her from feeling humiliated. Depressing.
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Pumpkin... The Dreamers...GORDON wrote:I'm looking at you Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, and that one with the guy from Scrubs... oh yeah, Garden State.
What the fuck is with people claiming how great a movie is when it's maybe got a few funny moments and mostly just a stupid character or two who makes me want to claw my eyes out and scream at them for being so stupid. I rarely turn off a movie. I'll sit through Deuce Bigalow: European Gigillo because dammit, I knew what I signed up for and it is so stupid it's funny. But the aforementioned movies I either turned off halfway into it for being so ridiculously stupid or depressing or I barely managed to finish and then wanted to run back to Blockbuster and demand my rental money back.